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Julie Walters Quotes

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.

I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

I don't want to give up acting - it's what I am.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

I never had any acting heroes. I never really went to the theatre.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.